{"id":4464,"date":"2008-06-03T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2017-11-11T17:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T23:16:50","slug":"congress-keeps-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-they-think-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/congress-keeps-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-they-think-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Keeps Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 31, 2008, we received our &#8220;economic stimulus&#8221; check from the US Department of Treasury for $1,500.<\/p>\n<p>On June 16, 2008, we shall send that $1,500 plus some back to the US Department of Treasury as our quarterly estimated earnings tax (we&#8217;re self-employed, you see).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Congress, for spotting me a little cash flow to pay the government.<\/p>\n<p>If the whole country had to file estimated earnings taxes quarterly, I&#8217;d think we&#8217;d see a much smaller annual budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 31, 2008, we received our &#8220;economic stimulus&#8221; check from the US Department of Treasury for $1,500. On June 16, 2008, we shall send that $1,500 plus some back to the US Department of Treasury as our quarterly estimated earnings tax (we&#8217;re self-employed, you see). Thanks, Congress, for spotting me a little cash flow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17510,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions\/17510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}